Top Past Quotes

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon....

Past Definition

(v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

(n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by.

(prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.

(prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.

(prep.) Above; exceeding; more than.

(adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

Acceleration can never happen if the baggage of the past in pulling you from behind!

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As...

Life isn't about falling in love as much as it is about learning to get over hatred..

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me...

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I hear...

Live for your dreams, not your memories.

Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact w...